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Estates General
As a result of public pressure, Louis XVI called the representative to meet at Versailles. -
National Assembly
After the failure of the meeting of the estates-general, many of the representative of all three estates proclaimed themselves to be the national assembly. -
Storming the Bastille
The King rufused to recognize the legitamacy of the mational assembly. he assembled royal troops neer Paris. rumours of the attack by their king spurred crowds to storm the royal prison, the Bastille, to release prisoners and collect weapons to use for defence. -
Abolition of the Feudal System
Due to the rumours of a poor economy and the scarcity of food, fear and panic in the country side led to attacks of the estates of the nobility. -
Rights of Man
In 1789, the decleration of the rights of man and of the citizen was passed by the national assembly. -
march on Versailles
In October 1789, several thousand people marched to versaille to protest the high price of bread. -
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Constitutional Monarchy
In 1790, the national assembly wrote a new constitution for France that kept the country a monarchy, but transformed the distribution of political powers. it proclaimed France a sovereign nation, made all government official subject to the law, dissolved the royal adminisatration, and shifted power from paris to 83 individual districts. -
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Emergence of the Jacobins and Girondins
beetween 1790 and 1793, two different political groups emerged, the Jacobins, and Girandins. the Girandins were moderates who wanted to maintain the monarchy, while the Jacobins were radicals who wanted to establish France as a republic. the Jacobins stormed to the Tuileries palace in august 1792, where the royal family was, and the king was suspended from his duties by the elected legislative assembly. -
War against Austria
with the canges to the political structures of France, many nobles fled to Austria and Prussia and attempted to mobilize foreign powers against the new government of France. -
National Convention and Declaration of France as a Rebublic
the national convention, compromising representatives from the Jacobins and the Girondins voted to remove the monarchy and establish a rebublic. -
Execution of Louis XVI
Louis XVI was tried and found guilty of treason by the new republic. he was sentenced to death, but his execution was not supported by all of France. -
Levee en Masse
facing a series of military losses against Austria, Prussia, and Great Britain, the government instituted a levee en masse (mass conscription) to provide additional soldiersfor Frances military efforts.